lectures/ideas: 11/08/16

2016-11-08

Anthony Aguirre - On Multiple Universes and Black Holes (Closer to Truth)

source: Closer To Truth 2016年10月18日
Galaxies and clusters of galaxies, untold billions of them, adorn the cosmos. How did such large-scale structure of the universe come about? The universe started as a hot soup. What stirred the soup into the vast ensemble of breathtaking objects that populate the universe?
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Anthony Aguirre - What can We Know in a Super-Large Universe? 5:04
Anthony Aguirre - What happens in Black Holes? 7:04
Anthony Aguirre - Do Multiple Universes Surely Exist? 5:25

Evidentiality of Spiritualist Mediumship with Stephen E. Braude

source: New Thinking Allowed 2016年10月5日
Stephen Braude, PhD, served as chairman of the philosophy department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He has also served as president of the Parapsychological Association. He is author of Crimes of Reason, The Gold Leaf Lady, Immortal Remains, The Limits of Influence, First Person Plural, and ESP and Psychokinesis. He is the recent recipient of the prestigious Myers Memorial Medal awarded by the Society for Psychical Research for outstanding contributions.
Here he suggests that a useful criterion in distinguishing between evidence for post-mortem survival as opposed to living agent psi is the motive for the mediumistic communication. If the communication seems to be of greater benefit to the deceased, this would count in favor of the survival hypothesis. For this reason, “drop in” cases are of particular significance. Braude describes one such case, from Iceland, in detail. Further discussion focuses on the accuracy of information provided by ostensible spirit communicators. Braude also argues that, in order to properly evaluate mediums, we need to know more about the nature of unusual human talent.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is a past vice-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology; and is the recipient of the Pathfinder Award from that Association for his contributions to the field of human consciousness exploration. He is also past-president of the non-profit Intuition Network, an organization dedicated to creating a world in which all people are encouraged to cultivate and apply their inner, intuitive abilities.
(Recorded on July 9, 2016)

Economics of Climate Change with Professor Kabat | The New School

source: The New School 2016年9月22日
Professor Pavel Kabat joins The New School's Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA | http://www.economicpolicyresearch.org) to present a lecture on the U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals as part of SCEPA's Economics of Climate Change series (http://www.economicpolicyresearch.org...). Pavel Kabat is director general and CEO of the Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria.
Directed by Economist Willi Semmler. SCEPA's Economics of Climate Change Project is generously sponsored by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the German Research Foundation (DFG), and the Tishman Environmental and Design Center (TEDC | http://blogs.newschool.edu/tedc).
Follow the conversation on Twitter with @SCEPA_economics using #CCecon
Department of Economics | http://www.newschool.edu/nssr/economics
Location: Wolff Conference Room, Albert and Vera List Academic Center
Monday, September 19, 2016 at 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Chemistry Laboratory Experiments (Middle East Technical University)

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source: METUOpenCourseWare 2013年1月24日
OpenCourseWare [ http://ocw.metu.edu.tr ]
Course Link: http://ocw.metu.edu.tr/course/view.ph...

1. Introductory Laboratory Techniques 8:39
2. The Law of Definite Proportions 4:54
3. Compounds of Calcium and Determination of Salt Content of Tap Water 6:36
4. Enthalpy of Formation 4:00
5. Preparation and Analysis of Potassium Trioxalatoferrate (III) Trihydrate 7:44
6. The Estimation of Avogadro's Number 2:05
7. Solutions 10:48
8. Molecular Weight Determination from Freezing Point Depression 4:40
9. Kinetic Study of the Reaction between Ferric and Iodide Ions 2:33
10. Chemical Equilibrium 5:27
11. Acid-Base Titration 7:04
12. Electrochemistry - Voltaic Cells 2:29

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Legalizing Marijuana: The Public Health Pros and Cons | The Forum at HSPH

source: Harvard University 2014年10月10日
With a growing number of states considering the legalization of medical marijuana and, more broadly, the decriminalization of recreational marijuana, this Forum event examined the public health pros and cons. What does science tell us about the benefits and risks of using marijuana? What are the economics at play? And what impact might decriminalization make on social justice? Presented in collaboration with Reuters.
Watch the entire series from The Forum at Harvard School of Public Health at www.ForumHSPH.org.

Agency, Morals & the Mind - Emma Flynn

source: SchAdvStudy 2016年10月24日
26-09-2016 School of Advanced Study
http://www.sas.ac.uk/
http://humanmind.ac.uk/
Agency, Morals & the Mind
Morals, Culture and Society
How does the Behaviour of Others Influence What We Do?
Emma Flynn | Professor of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Durham University

How do we become members of our cultural group? How, and why, do we learn the traditions of the society within which we live? In my talk I present research which examines how young children learn from other individuals in their social group. I present a series of diffusion experiments that investigates how ‘cultural norms’ are established, transmitted and altered. My results show that 6 children are excellent imitators, copying with high fidelity tool use behaviour that they witness others perform, even copying actions which appear to be functionally irrelevant; that is they ‘overimitate’. Such overimitation allows traditions that may be causally opaque (often the case within cultural traditions) to be sustained within groups. However, equally my work demonstrates that while children are predominantly imitators, occasionally they introduce new behaviours into their social group, which are adopted and transmitted across the group. I end my talk by exploring whether a more abstract behaviour than tool use, that is cooperation, is transmitted across groups of children, showing that, across many different forms of tasks, groups of young children do adhere to cooperative behaviour.
The Human Mind Project

Tulasi Srinivas | Worlds of Wonder || Radcliffe Institute

source: Harvard University 2016年10月3日
As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Tulasi Srinivas RI ’17 seeks a new way of understanding everyday modern, sacred life through the metrics of technology, money, emotion, space, and time. She is writing an ethnography of wonder and creativity in India by examining the ritual creativity in Hindu temples in the global city of Bangalore over a 15-year period.

Jalen Rose: "Got To Give The People What They Want" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年10月12日
Jalen Rose is a current ABC/ESPN analyst and former 13-year NBA superstar, and one of the few professional athletes to maintain a high profile post retirement. Long known for his post-game quotes and great relationship with the media, Jalen continues to show his versatility in the broadcast booth, in the entertainment world and as a philanthropist.
Jalen was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, where he attended Southwestern High School and the University of Michigan. In college he was part of the legendary “Fab Five” where he and his teammates revolutionized the sport of basketball on the court and off by wearing baggy uniform shorts, black socks and black shoes.
In this video, Jalen discusses his roots in the city of Detroit, using his influence to provide leadership opportunities for city youth and his NY Times best seller, ‘Got To Give The People What They Want”

Think Again Podcast - James Gleick - TIme Travel/Everything All at Once

source: Big Think 2016年10月9日
Spontaneous, deep talk on surprise topics. On this week's episode of Think Again - a Big Think podcast, James Gleick, author of Time Travel - a History, talks with host Jason Gots about why we're so obsessed with something that's evidently impossible.
Each week on Think Again, we surprise smart people you may have heard of with short clips from Big Think's interview archives on every imaginable subject. These conversations could, and do, go anywhere. Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthinkagain
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/think-again-podca...

Women: Where We've Been, Where We Are and Where We Are Going

source: Wes Cecil 2013年3月14日
This lecture was delivered to our local AAUW chapter on the question of the current status of women. The recording has a bit of echo because the hall is very large.

Truth, Relativism, & Anti-Realism by Hilary Lawson

source: Philosophical Overdose 2015年5月17日
Is truth objective and absolute? Is there an ultimate theory of the way the world really is? Or does truth and reality in some sense depend on us and our concepts, perceptions, and theories? These are some of the oldest questions in philosophy and divide metaphysical realists on the one hand from anti-realists (e.g. idealists, relativists, constructivists, nominalists). In this talk, Hilary Lawson presents a case against philosophical realism, arguing that it is us who divide the world into objects and give them their identity. We do this by holding the world in particular ways, a process he calls "closure". The world as it is in-itself, prior to and independent of our categories and ways of holding it, is undifferentiated and without meaning. Nevertheless, the ways we hold the world can be useful, even if they aren't objectively true to anything.

Anupam Saxena: Computer Aided Engineering Design (IIT Kanpur)

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source: nptelhrd 2012年7月9日
Mechanical - Computer Aided Engineering Design by Prof. Anupam Saxena, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

01 52:39
02 37:27
03 54:16
04 37:19
05 45:12
06 53:30
07 40:45
08 42:44
09 1:00:01
10 49:33
11 56:42
12 41:25
13 42:09
14 1:01:23
15 54:39
16 47:17
17 48:15
18 1:02:19
19 56:37
20 44:36
21 50:21
22 46:50
23 49:02
24 59:51
25 47:35
26 55:26
27 50:21
28 55:09
29 1:03:42
30 50:59
31 1:14:54
32 48:31
33 49:42
34 52:33
35 1:01:30
36 42:37
37 56:06
38 49:50
39 59:24
40 50:26

Srinivasan Chandrasekaran: Advanced Marine Structures (IIT Madras)

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source: nptelhrd 2013年7月30日
Ocean Engineering - Advanced Marine Structures by Dr. Srinivasan Chandrasekaran, Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

Mod-01 Lec-01 Introduction and Scope 30:03
Mod-01 Lec-02 Fixed type structures 40:17
Mod-01 Lec-03 Compliant type structures 45:28
Mod-01 Lec-04 New generation marine structures 32:00
Mod-01 Lec-05 Environmental loads-I 51:52
Mod-01 Lec-06 Environmental loads-II 53:10
Mod-01 Lec-07 Environmental loads-III 51:20
Mod-01 Lec-08 Environmental loads-IV 53:59
Mod-01 Lec-09 Other loads-I 35:53
Mod-01 Lec-10 Other loads-II 1:03:58
Mod-01 Lec-11 Ultimate load design principles-I 54:29
Mod-01 Lec-12 Ultimate Limit State-I 43:54
Mod-01 Lec-13 Ultimate Limit State-II 50:44
Mod-01 Lec-14 Ultimate Limit State-III 54:40
Mod-01 Lec-15 Partial safety factor 1:00:17
Mod-01 Lec-16 Plastic design-I 53:23
Mod-01 Lec-17 Plastic design-II 57:06
Mod-01 Lec-18 Plastic design-III 42:24
Mod-01 Lec-19 Plastic design-IV- Example problems-I 55:14
Mod-01 Lec-20 Plastic analysis- Example problems-II 45:38
Mod-01 Lec-21 Plastic analysis- Example problems-III 46:14
Mod-01 Lec-22 Theories of failure-I 48:05
Mod-01 Lec-23 Theories of failure-II 53:06
Mod-01 Lec-24 Theories of failure-III 47:27
Mod-01 Lec-25 Theories of failure-IV 52:22
Mod-01 Lec-26 Shear centre-I 58:45
Mod-01 Lec-27 Shear centre-II- Examples 46:38
Mod-01 Lec-28 Plastic capacity of sections under combined loads-I 47:20
Mod-01 Lec-29 Plastic capacity of sections under combined loads-II 50:51
Mod-01 Lec-30 Impact analysis- fundamentals-I 48:29
Mod-01 Lec-31 Impact analysis- fundamentals-II 41:53
Mod-01 Lec-32 Ultimate capacity of tubular joints 59:32
Mod-02 Lec-01 Fluid structure interaction-I 40:16
Mod-02 Lec-02 Fluid structure interaction-II 26:52
Mod-02 Lec-03 Fluid induced vibration-I 40:15
Mod-02 Lec-04 Fluid induced vibration-II 56:28
Mod-02 Lec-05 Flow through perforated members-I 41:26
Mod-02 Lec-06 Flow through perforated members- numerical studies-II 56:06
Mod-02 Lec-07 Flow through perforated members- III- Analytical studies 49:08
Mod-03 Lec-01 Introduction to Reliability I 51:59
Mod-03 Lec-02 Introduction to Reliability II 56:50
Mod-03 Lec-03 Introduction to Reliability III 46:48
Mod-03 Lec-04 Reliability framework in Marine structures 37:37
Mod-03 Lec-05 Ultimate Limit state and Reliability approach I 44:32
Mod-03 Lec-06 Ultimate limit state and Reliability approach II 50:13
Mod-03 Lec-07 Levels of Reliability 58:37
Mod-03 Lec-08 FOSM and AFOSM methods of Reliability 53:04
Mod-04 Lec-01 Fracture and Fatigue 48:39
Mod-04 Lec-02 Fatigue failure 51:13
Mod-04 Lec-03 Fatigue loading and fatigue analysis 35:36
Mod-04 Lec-04 Deterministic fatigue analysis 49:47
Mod-04 Lec-05 Spectral fatigue analysis 54:18
Mod-04 Lec-06 Stress concentration and fatigue analysis 45:47

S. Nallayarasu: Design of Offshore Structures (IIT Madras)

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source: nptelhrd 2013年8月13日
Ocean Engineering - Design of Offshore Structures by Dr. S. Nallayarasu, Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

Mod-01 Lec-01 Loads On Offshore Structures - 1 47:20
Mod-01 Lec-02 Loads On Offshore Structures - 2 52:11
Mod-01 Lec-03 Loads On Offshore Structures - 3 50:37
Mod-01 Lec-04 Loads On Offshore Structures - 4 44:56
Mod-01 Lec-05 Loads On Offshore Structures - 5 46:33
Mod-01 Lec-06 Loads On Offshore Structures - 6 46:04
Mod-01 Lec-07 Loads On Offshore Structures - 7 19:39
Mod-02 Lec-01 Concepts of Fixed Offshore Platform Deck and Jacket - 1 36:34
Mod-02 Lec-02 Concepts of Fixed Offshore Platform Deck and Jacket - 2 37:09
Mod-02 Lec-03 Concepts of Fixed Offshore Platform Deck and Jacket - 3 46:01
Mod-02 Lec-04 Concepts of Fixed Offshore Platform Deck and Jacket - 4 41:55
Mod-02 Lec-05 Concepts of Fixed Offshore Platform Deck and Jacket - 5 41:29
Mod-03 Lec-01 Steel Tubular Member Design - 1 46:56
Mod-03 Lec-02 Steel Tubular Member Design - 2 47:30
Mod-03 Lec-03 Steel Tubular Member Design -3 47:08
Mod-03 Lec-04 Steel Tubular Member Design - 4 47:57
Mod-03 Lec-05 Steel Tubular Member Design - 5 33:28
Mod-04 Lec-01 Tubular Joint Design for Static and Cyclic Loads - 1 25:53
Mod-04 Lec-02 Tubular Joint Design for Static and Cyclic Loads - 2 46:35
Mod-04 Lec-03 Tubular Joint Design for Static and Cyclic Loads - 3 49:50
Mod-04 Lec-04 Tubular Joint Design for Static and Cyclic Loads - 4 48:37
Mod-04 Lec-04 Tubular Joint Design for Static and Cyclic Loads - 4 34:05
Mod-04 Lec-05 Tubular Joint Design for Static and Cyclic Loads - 5 48:11
Mod-04 Lec-06 Tubular Joint Design for Static and Cyclic Loads - 6 45:21
Mod-04 Lec-07 Tubular Joint Design for Static and Cyclic Loads - 7 47:52
Mod-04 Lec-08 Tubular Joint Design for Static and Cyclic Loads - 8 46:22
Mod-04 Lec-09 Tubular Joint Design for Static and Cyclic Loads - 9 45:58
Mod-04 Lec-10 Tubular Joint Design for Static and Cyclic Loads - 10 48:04
Mod-04 Lec-11 Tubular Joint Design for Static and Cyclic Loads - 11 48:34
Mod-04 Lec-12 Tubular Joint Design for Static and Cyclic Loads - 12 40:03
Mod-05 Lec-01 Jackup RIGS-Analysis and Design - 1 41:38
Mod-05 Lec-02 Jackup RIGS-Analysis and Design - 2 42:47
Mod-05 Lec-03 Jackup RIGS-Analysis and Design - 3 36:03
Mod-05 Lec-04 Jackup RIGS-Analysis and Design - 4 28:05
Mod-05 Lec-05 Jackup RIGS-Analysis and Design - 5 40:09
Mod-06 Lec-01 Design Against Accidental Loads - 1 44:06
Mod-06 Lec-02 Design Against Accidental Loads - 2 44:40
Mod-06 Lec-03 Design Against Accidental Loads - 3 43:34
Mod-06 Lec-04 Design Against Accidental Loads - 4 42:00
Mod-06 Lec-05 Design Against Accidental Loads - 5 42:06
Mod-06 Lec-06 Design Against Accidental Loads - 6 45:23
Mod-06 Lec-07 Design Against Accidental Loads - 7 42:36
Mod-06 Lec-08 Design Against Accidental Loads - 8 38:43

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